Species details

Accepted scientific name:

Colossoma macropomum (Cuvier, 1816) (accepted name)

Synonyms:

Colosomma macropomum (Cuvier, 1816) (synonym)

Colossoma macropodum (Cuvier, 1816) (synonym)

Colossoma nigripinne (Cope, 1878) (synonym)

Colossoma oculus (Cope, 1872) (synonym)

Colossoma tambaqui (Amaral Campos, 1946) (synonym)

Colossoma tombaqui (Amaral Campos, 1946) (synonym)

Melloina tambaqui Amaral Campos, 1946 (synonym)

Myletes macropomus Cuvier, 1816 (synonym)

Myletes nigripinnis Cope, 1878 (synonym)

Myletes oculus Cope, 1872 (synonym)

Piaractus macropomus (Cuvier, 1816) (synonym)

Salmo tambaqui Kner, 1860 (ambiguous synonym)

Common names:

大盖巨脂鲤(引进) Mandarin Chinese

大蓋巨脂鯉(引進) Mandarin Chinese

黑盖巨脂鲤 Mandarin Chinese

黑蓋巨脂鯉 Mandarin Chinese

Blackfin pacu English

Bocó Catalan, Portuguese

Cachama English, Spanish

Cachama negra Spanish

Gamitana Spanish

Morocoto Spanish

Mustapaku Finnish

Paco Spanish

Pacu English, German, Portuguese, Spanish

Ruelo Portuguese

Schwarzer Pacu German

Tambaqui English, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish

Täpläpaku Finnish

Classification:

Animalia

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Phylum Chordata

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Class Actinopterygii

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Order Characiformes

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Family Characidae

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Genus Colossoma

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Distribution:

Venezuela; Thailand; Taiwan; South America: Amazon and Orinoco basins as wild form; pisciculture form largely distributed in South America.; Puerto Rico; Philippines; Peru; Panama; Orinoco; Oriental; Oceania - Inland waters; Neotropical; Magdalena; Jamaica; Indonesia; Honduras; Hawaii (USA); Guyana; Dominican Republic; Cuba; Costa Rica; Colombia; China; Brazil; Bolivia; Asia - Inland waters; America, South - Inland waters; America, North - Inland waters

Additional data:

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Source database:

FishBase, Dec 2008

Latest taxonomic scrutiny:

Data last modified by FishBase 20-Jun-2001

Online resource:

http://www.fishbase.org/...


CoL taxon LSID:

urn:lsid:catalogueoflife.org:taxon:401a5bf8-52c2-102c-b3cd-957176fb88b9:ac2009


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